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Aug 2023
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Anthony Bigio on Gad Franco, Sephardi Tu...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Anthony Gad Bigio on “A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic” (Hamilton Books). The book describes the turbulent and difficult life of Gad Franco, a prominent journalist, social activist and lawyer in the late Ottoman and early republican eras.

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